Has anyone done BSBA in Finance with TESC?

[MA2]

Tesc accepts ALEKS -- Assessment and Learning, K-12, Higher Education, Automated Tutor, Math for percalc and intro to statistics and college algebra.
It's only twenty dollars a month so you can pick up nine math credits in a month there.
For business comm and accounting I would recommend http://www.straighter line.com. Their format is excellent with no proctored exams.
Penn foster has a financial management class with no proctored exam also.
They also have some accounting credits that might be useful.
You can find their ace approved courses on www2.acenet.edu.
Anything ace approved usually transfers to tesc.

So you don't think I shouldn't take those CLEPs and DSSTs while I'm still in the Navy and they're free and instead do ALEKS and Straighterline?

[Yenisei]

No, you should do the CLEPs and DSSTs while they are free to you. Ryoder is a civilian and he may not have realized that these exams are free to you.

[MA2]

Gotcha.... This is all so confusing, I was all set on my brick and mortar school and now I'm looking at TESC and people are talking about Straighterline and ALEKS and blah blah blah... lol.

[Yenisei]

You should still use Straighterline- for Managerial Accounting after you take the Financial Accounting CLEP or DSST and also for Business Communications- just not for anything else if you are trying to minimize your costs.

[MA2]

$400 bucks for a Straighterline class though... does the GI Bill pay for them? If not I certainly didn't do 4 years in the Navy to pay for school out of pocket again

[FinancialWorld]

No straighterline is only $99 per month. It than costs an extra $39 per course. There are also various discounts online for straighterline. I spent $123 on managerial accounting ($99+$39-$15 discount=$123). I bought the book on Amazon for something like $44 and just sold it for $40 (I get about $35 of it), I think this beats the price buying it from their source. Total cost for course $132.

[ryoder]

straighterline is great I cant say enough good things about it.
The nice thing is that you can do accounting I and II there with the same book and same format. So since you have to do accounting II there I recommend just doing accounting I also since the format is easier than the CLEP IMHO.
I freaked out a little bit on finance, statistics and accounting tests. These are topics that were very new to me and hard to learn so I did them through straighterline and penn foster and aleks for stats.

Money wasn't even a problem for me since 100 bucks is not too much considering its a whole college course and penn foster finance is 350. It was just worth it for my sanity and the fact that I had to do Penn Foster for systems analysis and design anyway.

CLEP and DSST is more valuable on a transcript than ACE credits. TESC doesn't care but some schools don't recognize ACE credits.

[MA2]

Well hopefully I can knock out 10-12 more CLEP/DSST's in the next 3 months while they're still free...

Any certain order to do them in?

Macro, Micro, Precalc, biz math, prin of stats, prin of fin, accounting, money and banking, biz ethics and then biz law in that order?

Which accounting or finance class is best to take first after Macro and Micro?

[FinancialWorld]

I'm not totally sure about all of the tests, but I'll take a stab at it.

Macro -> Micro -> Money & Banking (or Principles of Finance)

Business Math -> Statistics or Precal. (I don't think it really matters)

Business Ethics or Business Law (they may have some correlation, but not enough that I can tell IMHO)

By accounting, I'm guessing Financial Accounting? This was a very hard exam for me. I don't think is has to be taken before or after Macro, Micro etc. It's kind of in a whole different ball park (I hated Financial and Managerial Accounting :/ blah Glad its done).

Some of these are listed only how I feel they should go, and others may differ with me, but I'm very sure on the Micro, Macro, M&B sequence. Those three form a good sequence. I only wish I'd taken M&B after I took them. Hope this helps